Good grief, I've got butterflies and all I did was send a few emails! I'm not sure if anyone else got this excited, its almost ridiculous how happy its making me. I'm looking at Dr. O and Dr. Spiegel to start. My message was pretty awkward but thats practically my middle name (Kova Awkward V.) - Anyway, it went something like this:

Hello, I am looking at getting FFS done in the next year or so and I've heard a lot good things from Dr. [insert name here]'s previous patients. I'm not sure where to start so I'm reaching out to ask what the process usually looks like. Just some quick info, I'm a 31 yr male-to-female trans-woman currently living in Ohio. My major concern is my forehead and hairline. Although I'm sure my chin and nose could use a little work too, these are further down on the list. Please let me know the best way to get started. Thanks and have a great week!

Not sure how you other girls started the Doctor interview process but this was how I'm doing it. I'm also concerned that because I'm super far away from both these doctors that the interview process won't be as good. I've never had surgery, let alone have it hundreds of miles away. It really feels like thats the biggest "thing" in this for me. It makes me anxious. Does anyone have advice about long-distance major surgery?

Hi Kova
I am in the same position as you but i will not be traveling that far just from Australia to Thailand for FFS hopefully i am egar for help too as i am a bit scared on the doctor im going with so i hope you get what you wanted, may everything run smoothly and all the best from one pre-op sister to another
Kind Regards
Daniella

Distance shouldn't really be a factor of any of your decisions. Once you're on a plane, it doesn't really matter if you fly 3 hours or 15 hours. It's not like you will have to do this more times than just there and back. I had some pretty good options for FFS here in Europe, but I decided to have a loooooong flight to the other side of the world, and trust my FFS to the best surgeon.

The only important thing is to have a surgery with a doctor you trust, and that what you know you need matches his idea of what you need. To figure out what you need, you need to take time (a lot) and study your face closely, every detail and every aspect of it, and every procedure... and based on that then research which doctors are able to give you the result you want.